No Kings, Just a Few Techno Lords
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Private ownership of digital infrastructure can give a small number of companies the power to determine the conditions under which everyone else participates in economic and public life.
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OpenAI Employee Uses "Unnamed Chatbot" to Spy on OpenAI, Gets Arrested by FBI
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We all can learn something from the latest episode of the OpenAI drama, this time involving corporate espionage, a foreigner, and an absolute slop attempt to steal insider information.
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No, You Are Not Living in a Computer Simulation
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Is Nick Bostrom’s famous 2003 paper actually near-proof that we are living in a digital simulation? Under close logical scrutiny, the overwhelming probability that simulated observers outnumber biological ones collapses, revealing that the conclusion that we are likely simulated does not actually follow.
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Why David Levinson Could Hack Aliens Using a PowerBook 5300 in Independence Day (1996)
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Could humans ever hack alien technology using an Apple laptop? Thankfully, this movie answers the question.
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